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CFP: Poe and Periodical Culture (3/1/07; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Stephen Rachman

Poe and Periodical Culture. This panel is calling for papers having
to do with any aspect of Poe's work with newspapers and magazines,
esp. papers engaging with recent scholarship that has addressed such
areas as authorship, literary nationalism, the culture of reprints,
copyright, mass production, marginalia, etc.

Send 250-word abstracts to Stephen Rachman
<mailto:rachman_at_msu.edu>rachman_at_msu.edu or Marcy J. Dinius
<mailto:dinius_at_english.udel.edu>dinius_at_english.udel.edu by March 1, 2007.

CFP: Poe and Periodical Culture (3/1/07; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Stephen Rachman

Poe and Periodical Culture. This panel is calling for papers having
to do with any aspect of Poe's work with newspapers and magazines,
esp. papers engaging with recent scholarship that has addressed such
areas as authorship, literary nationalism, the culture of reprints,
copyright, mass production, marginalia, etc.

Send 250-word abstracts to Stephen Rachman
<mailto:rachman_at_msu.edu>rachman_at_msu.edu or Marcy J. Dinius
<mailto:dinius_at_english.udel.edu>dinius_at_english.udel.edu by March 1, 2007.

CFP: Poe and Periodical Culture (3/1/07; ALA, 5/24/07-5/27/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Stephen Rachman

Poe and Periodical Culture. This panel is calling for papers having
to do with any aspect of Poe's work with newspapers and magazines,
esp. papers engaging with recent scholarship that has addressed such
areas as authorship, literary nationalism, the culture of reprints,
copyright, mass production, marginalia, etc.

Send 250-word abstracts to Stephen Rachman
<mailto:rachman_at_msu.edu>rachman_at_msu.edu or Marcy J. Dinius
<mailto:dinius_at_english.udel.edu>dinius_at_english.udel.edu by March 1, 2007.

CFP: Time/Passages (grad) (1/15/07; 3/22/07-3/24/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
IU English Department GSAC

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and
creative submissions for a National Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Conference entitled "Time/Passages"
to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from
March 22-24, 2007.

CFP: Time/Passages (grad) (1/15/07; 3/22/07-3/24/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
IU English Department GSAC

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and
creative submissions for a National Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Conference entitled "Time/Passages"
to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from
March 22-24, 2007.

CFP: Time/Passages (grad) (1/15/07; 3/22/07-3/24/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
IU English Department GSAC

We are issuing a Call for Proposals for scholarly and
creative submissions for a National Interdisciplinary
Graduate Student Conference entitled "Time/Passages"
to be held at Indiana University in Bloomington from
March 22-24, 2007.

CFP: Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture (grad) (12/31/06; 3/29/07-3/31/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Katharina Natalia Piechocki

This is an announcement for the NYU Comparative Literature department's
annual graduate student conference, which will be take place between
March 29 (Thurs.) to March 31 (Sat.), 2007. The CFP is posted below. If
you have any questions please contact the organizers at
tracingdebt_at_gmail.com.

Foreclosure and Forgiveness: Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture

A Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
New York University
March Thurs. 29 - Sat.31, 2007

Call for Papers

CFP: Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture (grad) (12/31/06; 3/29/07-3/31/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Katharina Natalia Piechocki

This is an announcement for the NYU Comparative Literature department's
annual graduate student conference, which will be take place between
March 29 (Thurs.) to March 31 (Sat.), 2007. The CFP is posted below. If
you have any questions please contact the organizers at
tracingdebt_at_gmail.com.

Foreclosure and Forgiveness: Tracing Debt in Literature and Culture

A Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
New York University
March Thurs. 29 - Sat.31, 2007

Call for Papers

CFP: College of Saint Rose Women's Studies Regional Conference - Feminism, Activism and the Academy (1/7/07; 3/24/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
LEDFORDA

CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINISM, ACTIVISM AND THE ACADEMY

=20

The Women's Studies Committee at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY
invites you to join Activist/Scholar/Publisher Barbara Smith and
Authors/Activists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards for the First
Annual Saint Rose Women's Studies Regional Conference on Saturday, March
24, 2007.

=20

This year, we invite scholarly papers, practical workshops and dialogues
by and between feminist and womanist activists, writers and scholars on
themes related to Feminism, Activism and the Academy.=20

=20

CFP: College of Saint Rose Women's Studies Regional Conference - Feminism, Activism and the Academy (1/7/07; 3/24/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
LEDFORDA

CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINISM, ACTIVISM AND THE ACADEMY

=20

The Women's Studies Committee at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY
invites you to join Activist/Scholar/Publisher Barbara Smith and
Authors/Activists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards for the First
Annual Saint Rose Women's Studies Regional Conference on Saturday, March
24, 2007.

=20

This year, we invite scholarly papers, practical workshops and dialogues
by and between feminist and womanist activists, writers and scholars on
themes related to Feminism, Activism and the Academy.=20

=20

CFP: College of Saint Rose Women's Studies Regional Conference - Feminism, Activism and the Academy (1/7/07; 3/24/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
LEDFORDA

CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINISM, ACTIVISM AND THE ACADEMY

=20

The Women's Studies Committee at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY
invites you to join Activist/Scholar/Publisher Barbara Smith and
Authors/Activists Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards for the First
Annual Saint Rose Women's Studies Regional Conference on Saturday, March
24, 2007.

=20

This year, we invite scholarly papers, practical workshops and dialogues
by and between feminist and womanist activists, writers and scholars on
themes related to Feminism, Activism and the Academy.=20

=20

CFP: AHCT El Paso, Spanish Comedia (11/26/06; 3/1/07-3/3/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Lottman, Maryrica

Call for papers re: Ana Caro's *Valor, agravio y mujer,* especially =
those focusing on its recent production at Washington's GALA Theater =
under the direction of Hugo Medrano. Please send abstracts by Friday =
Nov. 26th to Maryrica Ortiz Lottman, Assistant Professor of Spanish, =
UNC-Charlotte. mlottman_at_email.uncc.edu

CFP: AHCT El Paso, Spanish Comedia (11/26/06; 3/1/07-3/3/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Lottman, Maryrica

Call for papers re: Ana Caro's *Valor, agravio y mujer,* especially =
those focusing on its recent production at Washington's GALA Theater =
under the direction of Hugo Medrano. Please send abstracts by Friday =
Nov. 26th to Maryrica Ortiz Lottman, Assistant Professor of Spanish, =
UNC-Charlotte. mlottman_at_email.uncc.edu

CFP: Everyday Life (grad) (12/15/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
nicky agate

The Department of French at New York University announces its annual =20
Graduate Conference, =93Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory =20=

of Everyday Life=94.

February 16-17, 2007

=93How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.=94Annie =20=

Dillard, The Writing Life

  =93How are we to speak of these =91common things,=92 how to track them =
=20
down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they =20
remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, =20
finally, speak of what is, of what we are?=94 Georges Perec, Species of =20=

Places and Other Pieces

CFP: Everyday Life (grad) (12/15/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
nicky agate

The Department of French at New York University announces its annual =20
Graduate Conference, =93Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory =20=

of Everyday Life=94.

February 16-17, 2007

=93How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.=94Annie =20=

Dillard, The Writing Life

  =93How are we to speak of these =91common things,=92 how to track them =
=20
down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they =20
remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, =20
finally, speak of what is, of what we are?=94 Georges Perec, Species of =20=

Places and Other Pieces

CFP: Everyday Life (grad) (12/15/06; 2/16/07-2/17/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
nicky agate

The Department of French at New York University announces its annual =20
Graduate Conference, =93Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory =20=

of Everyday Life=94.

February 16-17, 2007

=93How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.=94Annie =20=

Dillard, The Writing Life

  =93How are we to speak of these =91common things,=92 how to track them =
=20
down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they =20
remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, =20
finally, speak of what is, of what we are?=94 Georges Perec, Species of =20=

Places and Other Pieces

UPDATE: Mentoring New Faculty in an Academic Dept (11/30/06; CEA, 4/12/07-4/14/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
jpestin5

DEADLINE DATE EXTENDED for Special Topics Panel ("Mentoring New Faculty in an
Academic Department: The Role of Administrative Leadership") at the 2007
College English Association (CEA) Conference New Orleans—April 12 to April 14,
2007

Topic suggestions, with the role of those in departmental leadership positions
as the focus, might include, but are not limited to, the following:

CFP: Ernest Hemingway (12/15/06; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Suzanne del Gizzo

Call for Panel Proposals for the Hemingway Society Panels at 2007 MLA in
Chicago

The Hemingway Society sponsors two panels each year at the meeting of the
Modern Language Association held in late December.

 

We invite ideas for panels through the following panel proposal process:

 

* Submit a 1 page proposal for the panel. The proposal should include
the "Call For Papers" that you would run to solicit papers for the panel and
an explanation of how the panel contributes to current Hemingway
scholarship. Please include the suggested panel title, your name, and your
institutional affiliation.

 

CFP: Live Comedy Audiences (11/30/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Batalion, Judith

Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Seeking contributions for an anthology that explores live comedy audiences.=
 The book will include contributions by both scholars and comedians, and wi=
ll focus on the dynamics of audience behaviour. The anthology will cover th=
emes including: cultural and historical differences in comedy audience prac=
tice; the architecture of the audience; the reception of 'low' versus 'high=
' and live versus televised comedy; the subjectivity of audience members an=
d the spread of affect; the two-way relationship between joker and listener=
; and the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. Addi=
tional topics also welcome.=20

CFP: Live Comedy Audiences (11/30/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Batalion, Judith

Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Seeking contributions for an anthology that explores live comedy audiences.=
 The book will include contributions by both scholars and comedians, and wi=
ll focus on the dynamics of audience behaviour. The anthology will cover th=
emes including: cultural and historical differences in comedy audience prac=
tice; the architecture of the audience; the reception of 'low' versus 'high=
' and live versus televised comedy; the subjectivity of audience members an=
d the spread of affect; the two-way relationship between joker and listener=
; and the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. Addi=
tional topics also welcome.=20

CFP: Live Comedy Audiences (11/30/06; collection)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Batalion, Judith

Live Comedy and Its Audiences

Seeking contributions for an anthology that explores live comedy audiences.=
 The book will include contributions by both scholars and comedians, and wi=
ll focus on the dynamics of audience behaviour. The anthology will cover th=
emes including: cultural and historical differences in comedy audience prac=
tice; the architecture of the audience; the reception of 'low' versus 'high=
' and live versus televised comedy; the subjectivity of audience members an=
d the spread of affect; the two-way relationship between joker and listener=
; and the comedy club as a distinct spatial and emotional environment. Addi=
tional topics also welcome.=20

CFP: Virginia Woolf: Art, Education, and Internationalism (1/8/06; 6/7/07-6/10/07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Madelyn Detloff

The 17th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf will take place Thursday, June
7 through Sunday June 10, 2007, at the Marcum Conference Center of Miami
University of Ohio, in Oxford, Ohio.

 

We welcome proposals for academic presentations, roundtable discussions, and
creative performances on the conference topic of Art, Education, and
Internationalism.

Proposals addressing diverse perspectives on the following topics are
especially encouraged:

 

Peace, War, and Pedagogy

Public Discourse and the Artist

International Perspectives on Woolf Studies

Virginia and/or Leonard Woolf as Political Philosophers

Woolf and Postcolonial Studies

CFP: Animals and Agency (3/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Sarah McFarland

Animals and Agency

(MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature
and the Environment)

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore literary
representations of animality, especially those that deal with the
agency and subjectivity of animals.

How do representations of animals undermine or complicate the
boundary that supposedly differentiates animals from humans?

How are animals constructed, and how do they undo those constructions?

Submit 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2007 to Sarah McFarland at
mcfarlands_at_nsula.edu.

Questions are welcome!

CFP: Animals and Agency (3/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Sarah McFarland

Animals and Agency

(MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature
and the Environment)

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore literary
representations of animality, especially those that deal with the
agency and subjectivity of animals.

How do representations of animals undermine or complicate the
boundary that supposedly differentiates animals from humans?

How are animals constructed, and how do they undo those constructions?

Submit 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2007 to Sarah McFarland at
mcfarlands_at_nsula.edu.

Questions are welcome!

CFP: Animals and Agency (3/1/07; MLA '07)

updated: 
Monday, November 13, 2006 - 4:14am
Sarah McFarland

Animals and Agency

(MLA panel arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature
and the Environment)

Proposals are invited for presentations that explore literary
representations of animality, especially those that deal with the
agency and subjectivity of animals.

How do representations of animals undermine or complicate the
boundary that supposedly differentiates animals from humans?

How are animals constructed, and how do they undo those constructions?

Submit 300-word abstracts by March 1, 2007 to Sarah McFarland at
mcfarlands_at_nsula.edu.

Questions are welcome!

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